First Church of Nazarene
First Church of Nazarene is a church in Newport, TN 37821. It is one of 88 churches in Newport.
Newport, TN, 37821First Church of Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 130 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Tennessee — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around First Church of Nazarene
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 43.2% (27.3–59.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Depression: 31.8%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (15.5–28.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 184 residents.
Churches near First Church of Nazarene
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Riverview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Newport Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Greggs Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- New Zion AME Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lowes Chapel — 0.9 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Nazarene Church — 6 mi away